Jim Willis

Friday Links for Jan 17, 2020

I implemented this great python script from @micahflee to automatically get rid of my tweets after a specified period of time. Similar to the Chrome extension I use to get rid of my Facebook posts but automated/scheduled so much more convenient.

  • The Death of the Good Internet Was an Inside Job | The New Republic – Another obituary for Google’s RSS reader and how Facebook ruined the Internet.
  • It’s time to change the abortion debate in America – Worthwhile read. This argument could be applied to a host of issues facing Americans.
  • Daring Fireball: Quit Confirmation for Safari on MacOS – Great little Keyboard Maestro script.

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    • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
      Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
    • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
      the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
    • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
      • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
    • Read: Why Not Bluesky
      The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
    • Read: The Tech Coup
      . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]

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